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JoAnne Stefanizzi
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"The Canines of My Life"
My best friend left this world last year and I still miss him terribly. Today I am thinking about the dimensions he added to my days and it made me...
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"Willow's Tail" 2
Martha‘s brow furrowed at the sound of the door bell. She placed her nearly cold tea down on the side table. “Was there no chance for a relaxing...
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"Willow's Tail"
"What a wicked turn of events,” Martha scowled as her black cat Willow strutted into the room flicking her tail. “And what makes you so happy?”...
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Carpe Diem !
Day dawns unspoken mine to create World unexplored through my garden gate Poems unwritten just words in my head Dance with anticipation trembling to...
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Sidewalks, Bicycles, Ice Cream, Barbecues...and Friends
My childhood home still stands and though it is no longer mine, I have visited my old neighborhood many times over the years. It is bittersweet to...
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If all could see as you do -
Posted on Tue, 20 Apr 2021
If all could see as you do - feel as you do- perhaps there would be change- but for those too wrapped in their ways -too blind to the pitfalls of their continued quick comforts -there is no hope for change soon. The plastic blight is everywhere...
Read full commentPosted in just deserts
All the parts/characters of
Posted on Sun, 25 Apr 2021
All the parts/characters of this fast moving story feel like they're about to collide...and I can not wait for the collision! This is Great stuff...and will be a best seller when you slap it between two covers and market this novel!
Read full commentPosted in Craven Gets Flashed XXIII
Yes, please rewind the mind
Posted on Tue, 20 Apr 2021
Yes, please rewind the mind to those sunny days of youth and love, such a perfect poem Jenny. You capture the longing but you also embrace the memory, knowing you still feel that love today. And the ending is pure and beautiful.."Older and wiser...
Read full commentPosted in Before We Kissed Goodnight
Connect with the nature and
Posted on Thu, 15 Apr 2021
Connect with the nature and let it inspire, so very well desribed here, this is a lovely work Jenny and I enjoyed reading this.
Read full commentPosted in Quark And Curiousness Of The Mind
What a peaceful and beautiful
Posted on Sun, 21 Mar 2021
What a peaceful and beautiful story. It led the reader though the child’s thoughts on connecting to nature and his grandad. I love the solitude and simple love of nature it depicted and how nature’s way of soothing us can be brought into our own...
Read full commentPosted in Calling of the Loons
I've just read the article
Posted on Wed, 17 Mar 2021
I've just read the article you’ve linked here and it is so sad, so very sad. What we have done to the fragile links of species, that have every right to their habitat and the right to coexist on this planet, is heartbreaking. Our footprint has...
Read full commentPosted in The Silence Of A Regent Honeyeater
Oh that Sergeant Dowd and his
Posted on Thu, 18 Mar 2021
Oh that Sergeant Dowd and his antique hunting tactics- Craven or I should say Betty had to lose that typewrite to him- Your characters are so well thought out, so dimensional, you know them after their first entry into your stories- and even...
Read full commentPosted in Craven Gets Flashed XV
Grand Anniversary
Posted on Sat, 20 Mar 2021
Grand Anniversary Congratulations Luigi! Fifty-five years of wedded bliss is a loving accomplishment and should be celebrated. I raise a glass and toast to you both for fifty-five more!
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That secret forest sounds
Posted on Thu, 28 Jan 2021
That secret forest sounds magical and perhaps a bit like Brigadoon, maybe you were meant to turn at that precise moment to capture a sight you’ll never forget.
Read full commentPosted in A Secret Forest
Lovely poem Jenny but then
Posted on Sat, 06 Feb 2021
Lovely poem Jenny but then any ode to nature is beautiful to me, and trees are the masters of that world. I can see that barrel oak just as you describe it, watching as it weathers kindly, Remembering its days of growth, upward and outward until...
Read full commentPosted in Big Belly Oak
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